1. IFTTT gets physical

    I just got a marketing newsletter from IFTTT.com that made me giddy with nerdness. Why don’t I just repost it…

    (Bummed I can’t get the Philips and Belkin stuff yet due to my impending transatlantic move.)

    We’re building new Channels that touch the physical world, 
    adding to existing Channels, and fine-tuning how Recipes are shared.

    New Channels

    UP by Jawbone and Philips hue are now on IFTTT!

    Doubling down on Belkin WeMo

    This week we introduced multi-device control for your WeMo Recipes 
    to much fanfare. Connect all your WeMos with IFTTT!

    A step towards simpler Shared Recipes

    In an effort to make Recipes as easy to use as pushing a button,
    fields can now be customized with your own titles or hidden altogether.

    Here are a few of our recent favorites:
      

  2. As mentioned earlier, cocktail robots have been awesome at least since 1999, when Roböxotica started in Vienna.  Photo from: “Robogames” Detail (by Curious Expeditions)

    As mentioned earlier, cocktail robots have been awesome at least since 1999, when Roböxotica started in Vienna. 

    Photo from:

    “Robogames” Detail (by Curious Expeditions)

  3. Here's What A New Orleans Brass Band Covering Daft Punk Sounds Like →

    Zuzka, I would get you this for your wedding if I had the money.

    (via Eric)

  4. These Friendly Robots Would Like to Mix You a Cocktail

    http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/these-friendly-robots-would-like-to-mix-you-a-cocktail/275817/

    Isn’t this a bit behind? I remember cocktail robots were big back in 2005. I wonder if that cocktail robot world championship in Vienna is still happening these days.

  5. Engineering the $325,000 In-Vitro Burger - NYTimes.com →

    Current status of in vitro meat and leather. 

  6. Francis was clearly an active and troublesome youth. He nearly caused a disaster on board the Mayflower shortly after arrival, when he shot off his father’s musket inside the Mayflower’s cabin and sent sparks raining down near an open barrel of gunpowder. After he got to shore, he climbed up a tree and spotted a “great sea,” which turned out to be a lake that even today is still known as “Billington’s Sea”. He and one of the Mayflower’s crew members went to explore the sea, but became alarmed when they saw some abandoned Indian houses. They were alone with only a single gun.

    — 

    Billington Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    This is an ancestor of mine…

  7. tomstandage.com →

    I want to publicly bookmark this author as I want to read all his books (or be him?). I already own “A History of the World in Six Glasses” but haven’t read it yet. And I just pre-ordered “Writing on the Wall”. 

  8. (via Breakfasts Around the World - Imgur) (via Austin) In contrast, this morning my breakfast was coffee and a rice cake with peanut butter.

    (via Breakfasts Around the World - Imgur) (via Austin)

    In contrast, this morning my breakfast was coffee and a rice cake with peanut butter.

  9. Inequality & Mass Transit in the Bay Area →

    Interactive graph of median income at different Bay Area transit stops. (Inspired by a New Yorker project that did the same for New York.)

  10. D3.js - Data-Driven Documents →

    Caromk emailed this to me instead of posting where it belongs :) Is it because everyone except for me already knows about D3? I think I need a nerd vacation (right after my hiking vacation, and lazy & warm vacation, and cultural vacation) where I just get to play with cool frameworks.